Mar 2001 Update

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: : RE:Voxton Guitars (Thomas Organ) : everheardofem? (modified 0 times) : Jim+Rhoads : Voxton's are NOT rebadged EKO's, period. They are Japanese made instruments that : have no connection to any previous Vox instruments. : The Voxton guitars were made for Thomas Organ and USA sale. You will find the : EXACT same Japanese made guitars from the same factory with a variety of names : on the headstock. I have seen these guitars with the Voxton, VOX, Burns, and Honey : names. They are all the same guitars, and were made in the same factory. : A side note: Vox UK (Rose Morris) tried selling rebadged Aria guitars as VOX's during : the 80's. They were much better quality than the Voxton's, but were also Japanese : made and were identical to their Aria conterparts. : 02-26-2001 10:25:34 : RE:Voxton Guitars (Thomas Organ) : everheardofem? (modified 2 times) : Greg : Profile | Email : Jim Rhoads! : Jim Rhoads! : Thanks man, for clearing so much up. I didn't THINK Eko had anything to do with : Voxtons. : And your explanation of Vox in the UK selling other copy guitars makes sense -- : especially that they weren't Eko's. : Your information that these guitars weren't made just for Thomas Organ makes : complete sense as well. (The name on the headstock - worn off on mine - looks like it : was cut in with an exacto kinfe, by an eight year old.) : So... while there may not be many 'Voxtons,' they've got identical cousins out the : ying-yang all over the country -- at least the Les Pauls. Still a mystery if the other : models were made in Japan. : : So: : ___did Thomas Organ still have a licensing agreement to sell *even non-UK originated : instruments* Using The Vox Name, in 1969/70? : ___at the time, was there even enough left of the Vox company in the UK to HAVE an : agreement with -- was Thomas Organ just plunging full steam ahead, all the while not : really CARING what was going on in England? : 02-26-2001 11:55:16 : RE:Voxton Guitars (Thomas Organ) : everheardofem? (modified 0 times) : Greg : Profile | Email : Interesting that John's serial number doesn't also start with "1970." : From the Voxshowroom description of the 1968 reproduction catalog: : "32 Page Catalog - The 1968 Thomas Vox catalog used the images from the 1967 : poster catalog, framed with the words 'The Sound That Travels With The Stars.' By : far the most complete catalog ever produced by Thomas Vox..." : "Also shown are ten pages of Italian guitars from Eko and Crucianelli, rebadged as : Vox." : : ? : 02-26-2001 12:20:17 : RE:Voxton Guitars (Thomas Organ) : everheardofem? (modified 1 times) : Greg : Profile | Email : So, I finally got my hands on a copy of the latest Blue Book, and there, located in the : Vox section, was the Voxton info. No specific listings for 'em, but there it was. : Below that Vox overview was a thank you to none other than Jim Rhoads and one to : voxshowroom.com. : And, I read the _one_ page in the book about "house brands." Then I searched for : Thomas Organ, Burns, Honey and for a "Japanese Guitars" section (I think I thumbed : past an English section), but nada on all counts. : (Who, oh who, made these copy guitars?) : Now I'm looking forward to getting a copy of Guitar Stories Vol. 1.